Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-13
ADGE WAXEM ABROAD.
1E GOES DOWN TO CORNWALL ON
AN EXPLORING EXPEDITION.
Sc Takes in Penzance, Made Famous by
Gilbert and Sullivan, and Investigates
Lands End-His Opinions and Mandy's
CharacteristicalIy Expressed.

Gilbert and Sullivan, and Investigates
Lands End-His Opinions and Mandy's
CharacteristicalIy Expressed.
Especial Correspondence
PENzANcE. England, May 20.
had been informed by all American who
Suowed everything, and more too. that if
wanted to see the Wayback of England
ought to go down through the county of
Cornwall, and having made the trip am
free to state here that he was mighty nigh
right
This town is about eighty-seven miles from
Plymouth, and we come down on the Great
Western railway, the only road coming on
here. OF course it's monopoly, and heerd
u lot of men in our car giving the company a
lambastin', just like free born, untramneled
American citizens would do One of them
was drummer, and he kicked like steer
He said the road was killing off all the coun-
try trade, and that vegetables were brought
over from France and sold in London at
prices that compelled the Cornwall farmers
10 let theirs rot in the ground. He was a
| Devonshiie man, living in Bristol, and he said
the railroads there were just as grindin'. and
that wheat had been shipped clear to Ameriky
and back cheaper than they could git it there
by rail l was most afeerd to put into the dis
cussion, for had herd that Englishmen
| would bluff a stranger, but after a while
| tried it.
| EXCUSE me. gentlemen" says, hitcbin'
over their way, "but eff you air having SO
| thunderin much trouble, why don't you leg
| islate an interstate commerce bill through,
| and have the administration appoint some
| commissioners like we air now rassling with
! in the United Statesp
| thot is an int 70 oop,p,or,o LII ~ o,+
the drummer, very polite much to my sur.
prise, and the others give me Their attention
| / explained our bill to Them about as near
| as any living man has been able to, and told
| them what the commissioners was expected
to do.
eve have such officials here" resumed the
drummer, "but our experience is that in de-
Gliding questions between the rich monopoly
and the poor people, they have always found
a method of not interfering with the mo-
nopoly. l am not making any accusations,
but merely stating facts
"That's all you've got to do" says l.
Human mater is human mater, wherever it
| grows, and we know in Ameriky what rich
railroad corporation is liable to do when the
needcessity comes up"
Mandy had been watching the scenery
while was talking on these state affairs and
were passing through The train was a slow
one, and we had fair chance to see what
was on the outside, and as we went deeper
into the country l kept a close lookout
There was sight of good farming land, but
it was powerful billy, and there was more
stone fences than would build a row of stone
fronts the whole length Of Broadway, New
York.
Some of the ground though was so all fired
| rough that sheep couldn't find picking on
to it, and sticking up all around was ruins
of some kind l don't know what, till asst.
The drummer told me they was dismantled
mines, and the engine houses and smoke
stacks going to wreck.
***
Penzance amt famous for much ex~-- t.
for giving one Of them comic oppery makers
a chance to write the PIRATES of Penzance y
which was popular in Wayback last spring.
1t is about 500 years old, and has added
twenty people year to its population during
that time, so that it now has 10000. II is n
summer resort of some note for the south of
England, and has lots of narrow crooked
streets, and houses that looks like last YEARS.
olrds' nests. good many new houses OF
stone have been put up lately, and it is partly
modern i'll places. The main business street
is called Market jew street, and at its head
IN front of the combined town hall and market
mouse, STANDS Inc monument to Sir Hum
phrey Davy, who was born near the spot and
who, besides being great man, invented
Davy's safety lamp, which has made the
miners life much less dangerous one than
tprmerly. 1t done me good to learn that the
laborinS people had contributed the money to
| out up the monument. l amt no hero wor-
shipper, but have always admired old man
| nd I fa1t Ia 1
knowed that he gave the schools of Penzance
flOO in his will on condition that the children
always would have holiday on his birthday,
| think Til do that in Wayback some time,
but not just at present, hope.
Romance has not got much of harbor.
| and when a big wind raises the sea dasbes
| over the stone wall in front of the town and
fills all the houses i'll the low ground up to the
second story.
They've got a quay and docks, built of
stone, on the American plan; that is. the
price of the work was to be G25 900, but be-
| fore they got it done the figures reached
10000. The citizens raised fuss when they
found it out, but they finally done Just what
we do-namely, to wit grin and bear it and
| let the contractors take the Doodle.
am finding out, as l go long. that Eng
land and us have good many pints of like.
ness At 8 o'clock in the morning a WAGON
| cite called for us, and we set out for I. ten
mile ride to Lands End, the pint of country
| where England stops, and about the only
| pint where she does. 1t was a sunshiny day
something that happens about as often as
the ISth OF February i'll this soggy atmos-
phere-and we had good horse and a good
breakfast and went out Of Penxance like a
picnic. On the way talked good deal with
the driver.
He was an American citizen by instinct,
and told him he ought to come over and 60
to talking politics and run for the legislature.
l believe he viii some day.
He told me good deal about the holding
of land and the exactions of landlords. II il
very difdcult to buy the freehold of any land.
and the owners usually lease it for long terms
at high prices.
Land in America that could be bought out
right for from $40 to $50 an acre rents here
for from a3 to Els per year, and one farm of
1000 acres, not far from Penzance, brings in